Non Sequential Oder-- HELP!

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Jose

I am putting together a presentation where I want custom
animations to go in non-sequential order. i.e, have
annimations execute in the order I click. PowerPoint
insists on going in sequential order (1, 2, 3, 4, 5).

Is there a way to do this?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!!!

Jose
 
Do you mean that you want to control the order at run time, or do you mean
that you want them to always run in 14352 order?

Also, always, always, always mention your version of PowerPoint. Which
version you are running determines not only how, but if, something can be
done

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Hi B,

I want to control the order at run time by clicking on
each item. Each click activates the custom animation.
Let's say text appears through "blinds" for argument sake.
So I have text boxes 1, 2, 3, and 4. I want to be able to
sometimes click 1, 3, 2, 4 and sometimes 2, 4, 3, 1.

I am running PPT 2000 SR-1.

Thanks for your help!

Jose
 
You can achieve the appearance of spontaneity by doing some planning and
set-up. (Oxymoron?)

Here is one way to do this, if fact, I recently detailed this same method a
week ago for another type of project.

Steps --
1) Open your presentation -- we'll call this PPT1
2) Copy the slide you will be using
3) Open a new file -- we'll call it PPT2
4) Under Tools | Options | View, de-select 'end with black slide'
5) Paste this slide as slide 1 in PPT2
6) Copy this slide once for each animation you'll need to reference
7) Make this slide hidden
8) Copy this slide (once for each effect on the slide in PPT1)
9) Insert a blank black non-hidden slide before slide 1 in PPT2
10) Under transitions, set the timed advance to 00:00 seconds, and 'No
Transition'
11) Copy this blank slide and paste it between each of the other slides and
again at the end of the presentation file.
12) Add the animation effects you want on each of the slides in PPT2. Set
them to start automatically as soon as the slide appears.
13) Save and close PPT2 (preferably in the same folder as PPT1)
14) On the trigger slide in PPT1, link each of the shapes to the slides in
PPT2 that demonstrate the effect you want.
15) Save file as a PPT, then again as a PPS

This sounds a lot worse then it really is. I could e-mail you an example of
this if you would like.

The effect is as follows:
In PPT1, when the slide is shown as a PPS, the clicked hyperlinks will jump
you to the slide in PPT2 that demonstrates the effect. The person viewing
the show is not aware of the file change. When the slide is advanced (in
PPT2, but this is unknown to the viewer), it skips through all the blank
slides, ends, and reverts back to the slide in PPT1 where you left from.
The viewer will see only that the effect reset. You can click another link
in PPT1 or advance to the rest of the show.

This will not allow the effects to be cumulative, but will allow the user to
decide the order of the animations. You should also make sure the 'Action
settings' are not active in any PPT2 slide, since the file will not open
itself.

Is this what you were looking for?
B


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B,

WOW! My head is still spinning! LOL! You are amazing! How
did you come up with this? Well... I can relate. I'm a
Graphic Designer and I'm always looking for creative ways
to do stuff that Adobe says cannot be done!

In any case, your suggestion will only partially solve my
problem. Here's the scoop: I'm putting a presentation
together for a client that wants to create a "Family Feud"
game for a training session. The problem is that the
answers will not come in the order in which they appear.
So, let's say there are four top answers to the question,
and the responder gives answer # 2. How can the presenter
make answer # 2 appear first? Then of course, when the
next answer (let's say #4) is given correctly, how can the
presenter "reveal" answer #4 and still leave #2 up?
Moreover, the order in which answers are revealed in each
question will never be the same... Hence, my "non-
sequential" original question.

I tried developing the project in HTML (with rollovers)
instead of PPT. The problem there was the sound bits. As
we know, each computer handles web sounds differently and
while my computer was happy running sounds within the
browser, my client's computer insited in launching the
Real player!

There is, of course, FLASH. But, I don't think my client
has the budget for us to develop this in FLASH. So! We're
back to PPT...

I'm going to try what you suggested. However, if I read
your directions and comments correctly. When I go to
reveal answer #4, answer #2 will dissapear (non-
cummulative), which would not work for me...

Am I SOL? :-(

Thanks A MILLION for all your great advice!

Jose
 
Why didn't you say so ....

A straight click to reveal, is easy. I thought you were looking for complex
animations.

1) Copy the codes below
2) Paste as macros
3) Assign action settings to boxes that need to go away (the boxes that hide
the answers)
On mouse click ... run macro ... GoAway
4) Add a 'reset' box to the slide.
5) Assign action setting to it
On mouse click ... run macro ... ComeBack


Macros:
'=====================
Sub GoAway(oShp As Shape)
oShp.Visible = msoFalse
oShp.Tags.Add "Hidden", "True"
End Sub

Sub ComeBack()
Dim SldNum As Integer
With
ActivePresentation.Slides(SlideShowWindows(1).View.CurrentShowPosition)
For SldNum = 1 To .Shapes.Count
With .Shapes(SldNum)
If .Tags("Hidden") = "True" Then
.Visible = msoTrue
.Tags.Delete "Hidden"
End If
End With
Next SldNum
End With
End Sub
'=====================


See if this doesn't do what you want.
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